Albuquerque Golf Division Director Leonard Berg, with 38 years of experience running municipal golf systems, has been demoted from his position as head of the City of Albuquerque’s golf courses. He is expected to run one of its nine-hole golf courses, Puerto del Sol Golf Course, a source told Sun Country Golf. [Read more →]

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Editor’s Note: Duncan Millar is a PGA professional with the Gulf Shores Golf Association, a collection of top-quality golf courses clustered around Gulf Shores and Orange Beach, Ala., a vacation destination on the Gulf of Mexico renowned for great seafood, fishing, white sugar-sand beaches and plenty of affordable lodging.

We followed up on an September 2009 golf-travel assignment for the Chicago Sun-Times by asking Duncan how the area is holding up since the BP oil spill. Surprisingly, he replied it’s not the oil but the national news media that is keeping people away. Here’s his report:

“One thing we really want to get out in a message is that things are okay here. It is not the hazardous wasteland that the media is making it out to be.

The USGA has also announced its intention to award the 2018 U.S. Amateur and 2019 U.S. Open The United States Golf Association has named Erin Hills, a daily-fee public golf course about 35 miles northwest of Milwaukee in the town of Erin, Wis., as the site of the 2017 U.S. Open.Championships to Pebble Beach (Calif.) Golf Links.